Mahmoud Abbas

Quit meddling, Kerry, leave the Israel problem to the proper authorities

  Quit meddling, Kerry, leave the Israel problem to the proper authorities
The former ambassador to Israel tapped by Secretary of State John Kerry as U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations just a year and a half ago voiced pessimism about the prospects for a peace agreement.
by Stuart Littlewood

Greg Felton: Mideast Peace Talks Doomed to Failure

Interview by Kourosh Ziabari | Fars News Agency | August 14, 2013

Canadian columnist and political author Greg Felton believes that the new round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will ultimately fail and lead to nowhere as the Israeli regime is continuing to insist on its illegitimate demands and also is not ready to engage in talks on equal footing.

On Those Middle East Peace Talks

By PAUL LARUDEE | August 6, 2013

The moment Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to send emissaries to Washington to discuss the resumption of 20-year-old peace talks, the objective of the talks was achieved. To anyone not in a coma, it is clear that these talks will not lead to peace, and in fact might not even lead to peace talks, merely to talks about resuming talks.
What, then, is the objective of the talks?